It is only the dead who have seen the end of war

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

Evil has no capital of its own. It is a parasite on goodness.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.